Added half-title: Portrait of Shakespeare with the legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border
Printed in Great Britain
A modernized edition based upon that by P.A. Daniel, issued by the New Shakespeare Society in 1875. The t.-p. of the original edition, London, 1562, is reproduced in photogravure: The tragicall historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Dr. Br. In ædibus Richardi Tottelli
Appendix I (p. [131]-145): Table of correspondence between Brooke's poem and Shakespeare's play
Appendix II (p. [147]-163): ... Brooke's use of Boaistuau and Chaucer